But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.